Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom fans are clamoring for the meat arrow

Zelda fans got to see 10 minutes of gameplay from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Tuesday. The game, which introduces even more immersive sim elements than Breath of the Wild, allows players to fuse items to create new ones. Given the number of items in the game, the possible combinations seem almost endless – only one stands head and shoulders above all others. Fans online are clamoring for the “meat arrow,” a hypothetical arrow infused with raw meat.

In the video, Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma showed off Link’s new Fuse ability, which allows him to combine two items into something new with unique abilities derived from the attributes of the items in question. He demonstrated the function by combining several items with an arrow – for example, melting White Chuchu Jelly into an arrow turns it into an ice arrow. As Aonuma scrolled through the menu to show the fusing options, he passed a piece of raw meat.

The moment had fans on edge. It was almost as if Aonuma was teasing us with the tantalizing prospect of combining a large piece of raw meat and an arrow. Now, Twitter is full of begging fans to see the meat arrow, or say that the first thing they want to make when they play Tears of the Kingdom is a meat arrow. “I’m going to fuse a flesh dart in Tears of the Kingdom, and NO ONE CAN STOP ME!” one person said. Another fan suggested that they want to eat it and say, “Meat arrow right in my mouth.”

We don’t yet know what a meat dart would do, but fans are speculating about its possible powers. Some have suggested that Link can feed animals or other characters with it, or use it to lure animals. However, we really don’t know what Nintendo is cooking. All I can hope for at this point is that we get a smart player who can only beat Ganon with meat darts.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomand his elusive meat dart, is coming to Nintendo Switch on May 12.